Workshop (Re)Drawing the Urban Ground / HRC
Event details
| Date | 15.10.2025 |
| Hour | 16:00 |
| Speaker | Ben Gitaï (HRC-EPFL), Lucía Jalón, and Alejandro Varela López (ALICE-EPFL) |
| Location |
Pavillon Sicli Route des Acacias 45, Geneva
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | French, English |
Wednesday, October 15
16:00
Pavillon Sicli
Route des Acacias 45, Geneva
Duration
1h30
Free, registration required
Inscription
(Re)Drawing the Urban Ground workshop is conceived as a space for exchange and sharing of experiences between professionals and researchers from EPFL. By (re)drawing Geneva’s soils, we will discuss contemporary methodologies of representation, characterization, and design of shared, productive, and inhabited natural spaces capable of addressing today’s environmental and social challenges.
Over the past decades, our understanding of soil has undergone a profound transformation. However, the lack of social representations for these soils and their workings means that what goes on below the ground surface of our cities often goes unnoticed in processes of design.
What lies beneath our feet? Does the soil have a thickness? Does it have a beginning and an end? Can we move from the thin line dividing air and earth of so many representations and into an active, social, political, and ecological thickness filled with agency and socio-ecological interactions? How can we make that thickness visible and active within our co-design strategies? Is it indeed relevant to make it visible, or are there other ways of making the soils accessible for the co-design of our cities?
Join Ben Gitaï (HRC-EPFL), Lucía Jalón, and Alejandro Varela López (ALICE-EPFL).
16:00
Pavillon Sicli
Route des Acacias 45, Geneva
Duration
1h30
Free, registration required
Inscription
(Re)Drawing the Urban Ground workshop is conceived as a space for exchange and sharing of experiences between professionals and researchers from EPFL. By (re)drawing Geneva’s soils, we will discuss contemporary methodologies of representation, characterization, and design of shared, productive, and inhabited natural spaces capable of addressing today’s environmental and social challenges.
Over the past decades, our understanding of soil has undergone a profound transformation. However, the lack of social representations for these soils and their workings means that what goes on below the ground surface of our cities often goes unnoticed in processes of design.
What lies beneath our feet? Does the soil have a thickness? Does it have a beginning and an end? Can we move from the thin line dividing air and earth of so many representations and into an active, social, political, and ecological thickness filled with agency and socio-ecological interactions? How can we make that thickness visible and active within our co-design strategies? Is it indeed relevant to make it visible, or are there other ways of making the soils accessible for the co-design of our cities?
Join Ben Gitaï (HRC-EPFL), Lucía Jalón, and Alejandro Varela López (ALICE-EPFL).
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Practical information
- General public
- Registration required
Organizer
- Habitat Research Center Ben Gitai